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January 23, 2008
More on the death of Heath Ledger
The New York Post, ONETIME IDYLLIC DAD IN UPSCALE BROOKLYN
In return for the relative anonymity that Brooklyn afforded them, the big-screen power couple lent their names to a slew of social causes.
For example, Ledger and Williams helped raise funds to fight planned high-rise condos in the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park.
"He was a real mensch . . . He and Michelle were engaged in all the big fights in Brooklyn," said Judi Francis, who heads a grass-roots group opposing the condo plan.
Daniel Goldstein, the spokesman for a group opposing the borough's controversial Atlantic Yards project, said the actors also once hosted a fund-raiser for them.
"The fact that he opened his home and gave his name to what we are fighting about was enough in itself," Goldstein said of Ledger.
NY Daily News, Neighbors shocked by Ledger's death
Ledger, who moved into Boerum Hill in 2005 after meeting Williams on the "Brokeback" set, actively opposed the proposed $3.5 billion Atlantic Yards development project that threatened to change the face of the neighborhood - one he'd come to cherish.
"I like everything," he said in an interview. "I adore it. I love my neighbors and the coffee shop down the road. We're left [alone] there to live. That's the thing in New York City: You're protected by numbers in a way, particularly Brooklyn."
Posted by eric at January 23, 2008 11:51 AM